Legal Innovation for Social Change: Exploring Change and Resistance to Different Types of Sustainability Laws

Political Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-121

  Castro, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Legal innovation; Resistance; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857441505     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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